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Republican Whip Appears To Accidentally Call Trump An Expletive During Speech In Hilarious Gaffe

A top House Republican accidentally insulted Donald Trump this week.

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It’s an unofficial rule among elected Republicans these days: Don’t ever say anything negative about Donald Trump. Because if you do, it could mean the end of your career in GOP politics.

One top Republican this week broke that rule, although, by all accounts, it was by accident.

Per The Daily Beast, the mistake happened at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual dinner, when Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the House Majority Whip, addressed dinner, dressed in black tie. And when he did, Emmer mistakenly referred to Trump by what sounded like a bad slur:

Emmer soon recovered and declared, “The American people are counting on us, and our friends in this room and grassroots supporters across the country are counting on us.”

At the same dinner, Trump appeared to make some “dinner remarks” and ended up speaking for nearly two hours.

There’s a chance it was a Freudian slip because Trump and Emmer have clashed before. In 2023, during the controversy over who would serve as House speaker, Trump reportedly bragged about blocking Emmer from the job. Trump even denounced the Minnesota Congressman as “totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters” and a “Globalist RINO.” At the time, Steve Bannon was denouncing Emmer as a “never-Trumper” who had “zero” chance of ever becoming speaker of the House.

“He’s done. It’s over. I killed him,” Trump reportedly said of Emmer, who soon after dropped his bid to serve as speaker, although he did end up keeping the #3 job in the House Republican caucus and has had nary a negative word to say about Trump in the two years since. Until that slip-up, at least.

Whatever the motivation for blurting out that particular word at that time, users on X had great fun with Emmer’s gaffe.

Photo courtesy of YouTube screengrab

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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